Morning Break: Restless Genitals, 'Big Tex' vs. Ebola

Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff.

The talking 55-foot tall mascot of the State Fair of Texas named "Big Tex" greeted fair attendees this week with some advice: "Remember, always wash your hands before eating!" The reminder was in reference to the recent Ebola case in Dallas.

Watch out, world: Here comes "restless genital syndrome." But read the case report before you use it as an excuse for an affair.

See this video of UV-flashing robots that Texas hospitals are using to sterilize Ebola-exposed rooms.

The NBC News freelance journalist hospitalized in Omaha for Ebola is being treated with the same experimental drug, brincidofovir, also given to the Dallas patient, the LA Times reported.

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored three researchers for work "fine-tuning optical microscopy so that molecular processes could be viewed in real time" -- considered a revolution for molecular biology.

More than 50 years ago social psychologist Stanley Milgram postulated that unquestioning obedience to authority figures leads people to commit unspeakable acts, such as those associated with the Holocaust. New research suggests Milgram got it wrong and that questionable behavior begins with a person's desire to participate in a "worthwhile project."

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